And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

The Washington Post: “Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown.”

Donald Trump's reckless and cruel leadership has pushed families to the brink.

While he uses shutdowns to scapegoat workers, California is stepping up by providing 248,000 federal workers with critical state protections and relief.

We don’t treat public servants as pawns.

Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity Judges have increasingly shown exasperation with Trump administration court tactics. The White House has shot back, raising tensions to previously unseen levels.

“Trump administration officials have expressed confidence that they will continue to win at the Supreme Court — where the president has racked up multiple victories this year. That might make them less concerned with activities in the lower courts.”

They believe they own John Roberts …

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

tl;dr the case doesn't even rise to the level of bullshit

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump and Republicans really are hellbent on screwing their own working- & middle-class voters to pay for their huge tax cut for the rich. If they get their way and end Obamacare subsidies, healthcare premiums for 23 million people double on January 1. The shutdown stakes Dems made their red line.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

In a Silent Watch, YANGARRA (Twirling Candy) finished 6th and last tonight at Charles Town for O'Neill, beaten 20 1/2 lengths after a 4 month layoff. This 5G's Record is now 27/2,3,4.
(See THE WATCH at eyesareon.blogspot.com )

The Republicans don’t want to pass their budget on their own. It’s full of ugly and unpopular stuff. They want Dem cover. We cannot give it to them.

Trump’s second term reads like a list of the Founders’ worst fears. trib.al/NrmI87J

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

ICE shoots ministers. Pass it on.

Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources Top Trump administration officials are pressuring federal prosecutors in Virginia to bring charges against New York AG Letitia James for mortgage fraud, sources say.

On Letitia James indictment, this may help explain:

"Senior DOJ leadership believes [DOJ] would be unable to prove any allegations beyond a reasonable doubt, in part because Fannie Mae guidelines on the issue are too vague" with "second home" versus "investment property."

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

A headline from the New York Post reads: “JD Vance calls Chuck Schumer ‘one of the most famous Palestinians’”

Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully.

Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ health care and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.

We are murdering people, sinking vessels and asking zero questions later.

BREAKING: Federal Judge April Perry is ordering a temporary halt to Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois.

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Press Release | Democracy Defenders Fund

BREAKING: Letitia James held Trump accountable & now he’s hijacking the DOJ to indict her in retaliation

This isn’t justice, it’s abuse of power

We will be amending our existing ethics complaint against Halligan & pursuing other legal measures

www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.09.25...

The job of a Washington Post editor today is to distort the facts—including about incidents from the recent past that were well documented by the old Washington Post—and to be seen distorting information like that, to curry favor with the Trump regime.

It’s sad, a real loss. But that’s what it is.